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Left 4 Dead 2 Getting Closer To Release On Linux

03-21-2013, 11:50 AM

Phoronix: Left 4 Dead 2 Getting Closer To Release On Linux

While Left 4 Dead 2 was the first Valve game I saw natively running on Linux when meeting with Valve to talk about their Linux plans early last year, the Source Engine game still hasn't been publicly released. Fortunately, the public release is getting closer...

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I have a feeling part of what is holding them back on L4D2 is that they probably want to release L4D first which they probably started to port much later than L4D2. From the way they were talking back in November, L4D2 was nearly ready then. Considering all the games they have ported since then it is hard to believe that nearly 4 months time wasn't enough to get L4D2 fit for release. Which makes me think they want to get L4D out first; similar to how the old Half-Life and Counter-Strike games got released first. Then again, I think Goldsrc was OpenGL based and it was likely a simpler engine than current Source so it could just be that those games made it out first because the ports were easier/quicker.

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I have a feeling part of what is holding them back on L4D2 is that they probably want to release L4D first which they probably started to port much later than L4D2. From the way they were talking back in November, L4D2 was nearly ready then. Considering all the games they have ported since then it is hard to believe that nearly 4 months time wasn't enough to get L4D2 fit for release. Which makes me think they want to get L4D out first; similar to how the old Half-Life and Counter-Strike games got released first. Then again, I think Goldsrc was OpenGL based and it was likely a simpler engine than current Source so it could just be that those games made it out first because the ports were easier/quicker.

I'm not sure what the point would be. Valve already ported all of the original L4D's maps to L4D2, so the first game is quite obsolete now. Valve knows this, players know this.

I find it more likely that the delay is because of GoldSrc, and the fact that L4D2 is one of the newest and most complex games using the Source engine.